Recaps

Li Qing considered using Three Lives Body to trap and kill three Wisdom Logic Anomalies across separate Sealed Lands, but worried about finding the spell’s rare materials and exhausting his Apocalypse Divine Curse. Meanwhile, Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord summoned the Six Paths and Eight Immortals, who suspected Li Wushuang had discovered the Sealed Land of Heaven.

• Li Qing planned to use Three Lives Body to set traps in three Sealed Lands and trigger Tribulations in all three places at once.
• Li Qing considered how to obtain the Spirits of the Past, Present, and Future and find someone else to cast the Apocalypse Divine Curse.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord gathered the projections of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to discuss the Black King's death.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord explained that Li Wushuang had used Emperor Kuntai and the Wish Cauldron to lure the Black King to his death.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord suggested that Li Wushuang had found the Sealed Land of Heaven, and the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings asked what he intended to do.

Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord analyzed Li Wushuang’s origins, abilities, and past actions to find a way to expose him. He concluded that Li Wushuang was pursuing Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and proposed a plan to force him into the open.

• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord asked Haoran Sage and Confucianism to cooperate in investigating Li Wushuang, and Haoran Sage agreed.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord traced Li Wushuang’s arrival eleven years earlier, his entry into Jixia Academy, and his first known actions as World Patrol Li Wushuang.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord inferred that Li Wushuang’s supreme treasure gathered information and cultivation methods, and that its reach had expanded as Li Wushuang grew stronger.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord concluded that Li Wushuang had foreseen the Black King’s possible descent, arranged its death, and concealed his true tribulation behind other events.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord suspected that Li Wushuang had tampered with the Logic Relic to pursue Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and already knew the Six Paths Investiture of Gods’ secrets.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed calculating Li Wushuang’s future and using an open scheme to force him into view and uncover his methods.

Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord outlined a three-pronged plan to expose Li Wushuang by infiltrating the Children of Destiny, guarding the Primordial Dharma Forms, and monitoring resources needed for the Five Divine Treasuries. After Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord warned that Li Wushuang could kill them, Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed using him as a weapon and asked Haoran Sage to probe his true foundation.

• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord deduced that Li Wushuang’s spies were hidden among the Children of Destiny and might be helping him steal Primordial Dharma Forms.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord proposed monitoring the Five Divine Treasuries’ resources and laid out a three-part plan to find and pressure Li Wushuang.
• Myriad Treasures Undying Dao Lord warned that Li Wushuang’s ability to kill Black King meant he could also target the Six Paths and Eight Immortals.
• Chaos Yin-Yang Dao Lord suggested drawing on the Wisdom Logic Anomalies and using Li Wushuang as a weapon, then asked Haoran Sage to probe Li Wushuang’s true foundation.

Haoran Sage questioned the Master, the Pujiang Dragon King, and Wang Riyue about Li Wushuang and the events surrounding the Demon Sect’s destruction. He declared Li Wushuang wanted by the Six Paths and Eight Immortals, ordered his former associates to capture or report him, and sent Haoran Academy to assist Nangong Haoran.

• Haoran Sage learned from the Master that Li Wushuang entered Jixia Academy using a token from the Pujiang Dragon King, and ordered the Master to seize him if he returned without helping him.
• Haoran Sage questioned the Pujiang Dragon King, who revealed his bargain with Li Qing to protect Long'er during his future tribulation.
• Haoran Sage ordered the Pujiang Dragon King to capture Li Wushuang if they met again or be treated as his accomplice.
• Haoran Sage questioned Wang Riyue about the Demon Sect’s destruction and learned that someone had secretly contacted Chen Daolong and previously rescued him.
• Haoran Sage told Wang Riyue to report and capture the wanted person, then ordered Haoran Academy to join Nangong Haoran’s command.

The Haoran Sage investigated Qingshi County, uncovered Li Qing’s true name and appearance, and joined the Six Paths and Eight Immortals’ effort to capture him. Li Qing learned of the threat, ordered his spy networks to go dormant, and decided to focus on the seal while changing his plans.

• The Haoran Sage searched the memories of Qingshi County’s residents and traced Li Qing’s past to a sealed bookstore where he had lived in isolation.
• The Haoran Sage identified Li Qing and Li Wushuang as the same person, learned his true appearance, and vowed to kill him if he appeared again.
• Tribulation Realm cultivators from several factions entered the military camps to investigate the cultivators serving the Sons of Destiny.
• Li Qing learned through his Shadow Paper Dolls that the Haoran Sage had visited places connected to him and realized the Six Paths and Eight Immortals were investigating him.
• Li Qing read the Jade Tablet’s report on the three capture plans and ordered all beings under his control to make their spy networks dormant.
• Li Qing resolved to rely on city networks and direct observation for information, seek Five Divine Treasuries resources by other means, and focus on the seal.

Wisdom Logic Anomalies and the Evil Spirit Society began searching for Li Wushuang after learning of Black King's death, while Li Qing used the Record Book to investigate the threat. His vision of the future showed his plan failing and ending in his death, so he resolved to find what had gone wrong before proceeding.

• A Wisdom Logic Anomaly told the others that Li Wushuang had killed Black King and proposed finding him to uncover the secrets surrounding the Logic Relic.
• The Wisdom Logic Anomalies agreed to locate and seize Li Wushuang, while a Great Master ordered the Evil Spirit Society to search for him and report any findings.
• Li Qing learned that the Wisdom Logic Anomalies and Six Paths and Eight Immortals were pursuing him, and considered using their interest as part of his plan.
• Li Qing used the Way of Changes to view the future and saw three versions of himself as walking corpses amid a catastrophic battle.
• Li Qing recorded the failed future in the Record Book, but the Jade Tablet could not restore its essence because key information was missing.
• Li Qing decided to proceed cautiously and investigate where his plan had gone wrong.

Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to infer that the Daoist Sect had discovered his use of the Seal of Heaven and might have thwarted his plan. He began searching the Quicksand River for the second Seal of Heaven and followed a vast fissure into an immense underground expanse, where the search continued.

• Li Qing reconstructed information suggesting that the Six Paths and Eight Immortals had deduced how he used the Seal of Heaven and were researching ways to stop him.
• Li Qing decided to investigate the Six Paths and Eight Immortals' countermeasures while searching for the second Seal of Heaven beneath the Quicksand River in Sand Province.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls through the Quicksand River and discovered its riverbed nearly nine hundred zhang below the surface.
• Li Qing's Shadow Paper Dolls found a huge fissure in the riverbed, and Li Qing followed the quicksand into the underground space below it.
• Li Qing sent the Shadow Paper Dolls deeper along a single line to search for the end of the vast underground expanse.

Li Qing discovered a sealed passage beneath the Quicksand River and learned that a calamity-grade Anomaly guarded its exit. He left to search for the fourth Heaven-Sealing Array as the Eighteen Warlords prepared for war and Anomalies spread across the land.

• Li Qing found a hollow encircled by nine Stone Steles beneath the quicksand, where anything that entered vanished.
• Li Qing used the Stone Steles to enter the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array and confirmed that he planned to use it against a Wisdom Logic Anomaly.
• After leaving the array, Li Qing saw a huge eye beneath the hollow and sensed that its power rivaled an immortal’s.
• Li Qing used the Record Book and Jade Tablet to learn that the hollow was a passage to another realm ruled by a calamity-grade Anomaly.
• Li Qing left to search for the fourth Heaven-Sealing Array at Jiangdong Beyond the Pass in Tang Province.
• The Eighteen Warlords returned to their territories, while commoners stockpiled grain and Dao soldiers patrolled farmland as war and Anomalies threatened the land.

Li Qing's Divine Body traveled to Sky Azure City in Tang Province and mapped the waterways beneath Sky Azure Lake while searching for the Seal of Heaven. He found a deep water eye that appeared to connect to another realm, but its crushing force destroyed his arm when he tested it.

• Li Qing disguised himself as an ordinary person and entered Sky Azure City, where he learned the Seal of Heaven lay beneath Sky Azure Lake.
• Li Qing descended into the lake and sent Shadow Paper Dolls through the underwater channels to map the water network.
• Li Qing killed a transparent Fierce-grade Anomaly and collected its Essence Stone as he explored the waterways.
• Li Qing followed a frigid channel to a deep water eye, where black water flowed into the underground network.
• Li Qing thrust his right arm into the water eye, and its violent force crushed the arm into powder.

Li Qing confirmed a fourth Seal of Heaven as a viable trap for Wisdom Logic Anomalies and planned how to lure them there and kill them. After stabilizing his True Soul, he prepared to begin cultivating the Divine Soul Realm techniques.

• Li Qing abandoned his attempt to pass through the water eye and used Shadow Paper Dolls to open a route to the Sealed Land in Jiangdong Beyond the Pass.
• Li Qing confirmed that the fourth Seal of Heaven could serve as an ambush point and left behind a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll.
• Li Qing studied the Wisdom Logic Anomalies and their cults, planning to use marked believers as pieces and lure the anomalies to the Seal of Heaven.
• Li Qing devised a staged plan to trap and kill three Wisdom Logic Anomalies, while varying the timing of the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger's use.
• Nine days later, Li Qing had stabilized his True Soul and began studying the Jade Tablet's starry-sky pattern before cultivating Divine Soul Realm techniques.

Li Qing cultivated the <Comprehensive Record of Humanity Under Heaven—Divine Soul Visualization Method> and absorbed its vast information into the Heavens Civilization Torrent. The resulting anomalous attention overwhelmed his senses, and the chapter ended as black hands reached him while the Torrent fought off the invasion.

• Li Qing touched the visualization pattern and absorbed its mysterious Principle, sensing the rise and fall of countless civilizations.
• The pattern flooded Li Qing's mind with information, and the Heavens Civilization Torrent absorbed it and evolved new civilizations.
• Li Qing sensed terrifying beings across spacetime as sinister ripples and black arms appeared in the underground secret chamber.
• A multicolored radiance drew at Li Qing's heart, but the Heavens Civilization Torrent suppressed it and brought him back to himself.
• Chaotic whispers contaminated Li Qing's sea of consciousness as the Torrent resisted, while black hands surged toward him.

Li Qing faced a second personality and a flood of Black Hands while cultivating the Divine Soul method, then used his will and Heavens Civilization Torrent to destroy the threat and form his soul manifestation. After the secret chamber fell quiet, he prepared to send his soul manifestation out of his body.

• Black Hands surged from black holes and pressed against Li Qing's Sword Pellet, while a second personality formed inside his mind and tried to take control.
• Li Qing confronted the second personality in his mind and destroyed it with his powerful will.
• Heavens Civilization Torrent cleansed Li Qing, and his Sword Pellet shattered the Black Hands and pierced the black holes.
• An evil eye cast a chill over Li Qing, but his Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body shielded him as mysterious black smoke seeped from his body.
• Li Qing completed the Divine Soul method and formed his soul manifestation, then sent it toward the sky with a Sword Pellet in its hand.

Li Qing entered the Spirit Roaming Realm and planned to build his Principle Seed from two spell systems. He used dream materials to create a spell that let his mind enter the Dream World, where he encountered a gigantic insect.

• Li Qing briefly sent his soul form beyond the heavens, saw layers of space filled with Anomalies and greater terrors, then returned to safety.
• Li Qing recalled the limits of soul-form roaming and planned to nurture his new soul form for forty-nine days before integrating spells.
• Li Qing chose the nine innate spells and the Compendium of Worldly Spells as the foundation of his Principle, while keeping special spells separate.
• Li Qing ground Dream Flower with Dream Water, wrote the Great Dream Divine Curse on Dream Stone, and absorbed the resulting spell into his mind.
• Li Qing used the spell to enter the Dream World and found himself in a wasteland facing a gigantic insect.

Li Qing used his control over the Dream World to create a terrifying phenomenon in the dreams of people in three cities. The shared dreams spread over the following days and drew the attention of cultivators.

• Li Qing discovered he could alter the Dream World and split into countless copies to search for suitable dreamers.
• Li Qing created three colossal cities in the dreams of people in Qing City, Quicksand City, and Sky Azure City, then sent a giant palm and two giant feet to crush them.
• A vast web appeared and restrained the giant figures, which faded into the cities without destroying them.
• Wang Qifeng woke from the dream and learned that Brother Li had seen the same giant palm descending on Qing City.
• People in Quicksand City and Sky Azure City experienced similar dreams, and reports of the phenomenon spread until cultivators took notice.

Widespread shared dreams revealed the locations of three seals, drawing Dao Lineage factions, evil cults, and Wisdom Logic Anomalies to the three cities. Li Qing watched the converging forces and decided to guide the Evil Spirit Society’s secret plan in Sky Azure City by giving it a clue about when to act.

• The Daoist Sect and other factions investigated the dreamers, while rumors spread that a mysterious existence was sealed beneath the three cities.
• Six Paths and Eight Immortals agreed to watch the seals and track the Wisdom Logic Anomalies, prompting Tribulation Realm cultivators to converge on the cities.
• Li Qing noticed that the search for him had paused and activated his intelligence networks as the Evil Spirit Society and other evil cults investigated the seals.
• The anomalies concluded the dreams might carry a message from Heaven, ordered a full investigation, and set aside their pursuit of Li Wushuang.
• Li Qing learned that the Evil Spirit Society planned to blood-sacrifice part of Sky Azure City to expose a seal, so he used Dream World to plant a second clue about the timing.

Wang Qifeng and others dreamed of snow and a giant palm, prompting the Wisdom Logic Anomalies and the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to delay their plans until winter and watch for the Seal of Heaven. Li Qing used the lull to begin searching for the three materials needed to complete the Past, Present, and Future Three-Life Fate Body.

• Wang Qifeng dreamed of a giant palm trapped in a net beneath falling snow, then met Brother Li, who had dreamed of the snow as well.
• The Evil Spirit Daoist reported the dream to the Wisdom Logic Anomalies, who concluded that they should watch and wait until winter.
• The Evil Spirit Daoist delayed activating the Blood Sacrifice Time-Space Reversal Formation, which required sacrificing at least a hundred thousand people.
• Haoran Sage and the Six Paths and Eight Immortals ordered cultivators to monitor the evil sects without disrupting their plans, while secretly keeping those plans on track.
• Li Qing learned of the factions’ reactions through Shadow Paper Dolls and the Jade Tablet, then used the Record Book to search for the three spirits needed for his Three-Life Fate Body.

Li Qing traveled to the North Sea Dragon Palace to search for the Spirit of the Past and infiltrated the palace to gather intelligence. After learning that the favored Third Dragon Prince, Ao Dong, could freely enter the palace, Li Qing tracked him to a patrol in the North Sea's hunting grounds.

• Li Qing learned that the Spirit of the Past was in the North Sea Dragon Palace and sent his Divine Body there.
• Li Qing used Shadow Paper Dolls to surveil the palace and learned that its dragon princes lived in isolation under the North Sea Dragon King's rule.
• Li Qing made Dragon Seventeen his spy and learned that Ao Dong was the only dragon prince allowed to freely enter and leave the palace.
• Li Qing discovered that Ao Dong was patrolling the Dragon Palace's hunting grounds and headed there to find him.
• Li Qing arrived at a vast sea-vein essence site where more than fifty thousand Demon Race soldiers had surrounded the sea.

Li Qing investigated an essence-rich region in the Northern Sea and discovered that its energy drew unconscious Anomaly projections from higher-dimensional spacetime. After the North Sea Dragon Palace’s army cleared the area and collected its resources, Li Qing sent a Shadow Paper Doll into the camp to locate Ao Dongfang.

• Li Qing observed the army led by Ao Dongfang slaughtering Anomalies and demonic beasts across the seabed.
• Li Qing examined the essence energy rising from the earth and recorded that it attracted Anomaly projections from unknown, possibly higher-dimensional, spacetime.
• Li Qing realized that the dangerous creatures born from the essence veins explained why the Northern Sea Dragon King had not established a safe dragon palace there.
• The fifty-thousand-strong army cleared the terrain, gathered Essence Stones, and recruited fish that awakened their bloodlines into its ranks.
• Li Qing sent his Shadow Paper Doll into the camp and discovered Ao Dongfang relaxing in a palace amid singing and dancing.

Li Qing used the Wish Spell to steer Ao Dongfang into the North Sea Dragon Palace treasury and take the Spirit of the Past, while remaining hidden in his shadow. The Dragon King learned of the theft and wondered why Ao Dongfang wanted the treasure.

• Li Qing decided not to control Ao Dongfang directly and instead hid a Myriad Shadow Paper Doll in his shadow.
• Ao Dongfang returned to the North Sea Dragon Palace, reported his successful mission, and received the Calming Heart Lotus Platform from the North Sea Dragon King.
• Li Qing used the Wish Spell to make Ao Dongfang visit the treasury for supplies and magical artifacts.
• Li Qing used the Wish Spell again, prompting Ao Dongfang to take the pearl containing the Spirit of the Past and several other treasures.
• A Dragon Palace general reported Ao Dongfang’s actions to the North Sea Dragon King, who questioned why his son wanted the Spirit of the Past.

Li Qing used the Wish Spell to make Ao Dongfang unknowingly give him the Spirit of the Past while planting a false cultivation method in his memory. After evading the North Sea Dragon King's search, Li Qing reached the Return-to-Ruins Mist in Dragon Province to seek the Spirit of the Present.

• The North Sea Dragon King sensed something amiss and questioned Ao Dongfang about taking the Spirit of the Past.
• Li Qing used the Wish Spell to give Ao Dongfang a false memory of finding the Past Dharma Body, a dangerous cultivation method.
• The North Sea Dragon King examined the method and approved it, while Li Qing compelled Ao Dongfang to leave the Spirit of the Past in his bedchamber.
• Li Qing removed the restrictions on Ao Dongfang's storage pouch, took the Spirit of the Past, and escaped unnoticed.
• The North Sea Dragon King discovered the theft and tampering with Ao Dongfang's fate, but could not find or divine the culprit.
• Li Qing arrived at the Return-to-Ruins Mist, where he began searching for the Spirit of the Present.

Li Qing entered a chaotic space-time region in search of the Spirit of the Present, but its lethal anomalies repeatedly killed him as he explored. After three days, he had gathered Essence Stones and mapped only a small part of the area when a humanoid shadow appeared ahead.

• Li Qing crossed from a deathly silent forest into a region filled with violent space-time storms, suspecting the Spirit of the Present was hidden there.
• He used his defenses to withstand the storms and repel a spiritual attack, but an unknown force suddenly shattered his Divine Body and killed him.
• Li Qing returned through his mark and continued exploring, dying repeatedly to inexplicable forces and Anomalies over the next three days.
• He mapped less than a tenth of the mountain range, noticed its strange shifting light and otherworldly space-time, and collected Essence Stones from creatures there.
• A humanoid black shadow surrounded by dark crimson light appeared ahead of Li Qing.

In the Return to Ruins, Li Qing encountered a Wisdom-bearing figure from the void that wanted him to make a deal and take it into the Nine Provinces Four Regions. He learned the figure’s arrival could guide a terrifying existence into his world, then pressed it for information while refusing to agree.

• Li Qing met a dark-red figure that claimed to be a traveler and offered him anything he desired in exchange for being taken out of the chaotic space-time.
• Li Qing recorded that the figure was an avatar seeking edible resources and that making a deal would turn him into a coordinate for a destructive void existence.
• The figure described an unknown domain of light inhabited by mythical spirits and a river of void that could carry travelers to unknown places.
• Li Qing questioned the figure about its origins, and it said it came from a void world governed by logic that must not be touched.
• The figure demanded an answer about their deal, while Li Qing challenged it to explain why it could not escape on its own.

Li Qing escaped the mysterious being and explored the Void River, learning that the Spirit of the Present was not there. He entered the Light Domain in search of the Spirit of the Present, but found no life before the chapter ended.

• Li Qing refused to help the mysterious being attack the Nine Provinces Four Regions and escaped when it destroyed his Divine Body.
• Li Qing found the Void River and used the Record Book to learn that it was a dangerous conceptual logic and did not contain the Spirit of the Present.
• Li Qing crossed the spacetime storm and reached the Light Domain, entering its radiant bubble but finding himself unable to leave easily.
• Li Qing explored the fairy-tale-like interior and recorded what he learned about mythic sprites, mythic creatures, and the possible appearance of a Spirit of the Present there.

Li Qing found mythical spirits in a sheltered valley in the Light Domain and learned that an unknown Anomaly had killed one of their companions. He agreed to hunt it down in exchange for the Spirit of the Present, then began mapping and investigating the area.

• Li Qing used his Shadow Paper Dolls to search the Light Domain and found a valley sealed by a barrier of light.
• A miniature dragon emerged and told Li Qing that the Spirit of the Present was precious to the mythical spirits.
• The dragon offered the Spirit of the Present in exchange for Li Qing finding and eliminating the Anomaly that had killed one of their companions.
• Li Qing agreed to help, and his Shadow Paper Doll mapped the Light Domain while he recorded what he had learned.

Li Qing tracked down a logical Anomaly that people forgot whenever they looked away, then destroyed it before it could use its existence-erasing power. He identified the relics it left behind and learned that its conical hat could make its wearer unmemorable at the cost of gradually erasing them.

• Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to locate the Anomaly in the north and had Shadow Paper Dolls search the area.
• Li Qing recorded and numbered 138 creatures, then identified creature number seventy-three, a squirrel with black spots, as the Anomaly.
• Li Qing found the squirrel and attacked it with Doomsday Mist Extinguishing Transcendence and the Invincible Human Dao Dharma Body.
• Li Qing destroyed the Anomaly and found a conical hat and a black dagger among its remains.
• Li Qing recorded that the conical hat, the Unmemorable Conical Hat, made its wearer impossible to remember but caused them to vanish after ten uses.